Sentences with phrase «half years of rejections»

Canfield faced many years of rejection before he found significant succes, but throughout the process, it was his belief that the right opportunity would eventually come along that encouraged him to continue striving.

After sinking his teeth into a mouthwatering Lockhart Legend at Grub Burger Bar (complete with beer - battered onion rings), Smith relives those first few years of rejection, slow growth and at last a breakthrough!

Anyway, trying to communicate this, and the other issues, to my then pastor was also fraught with problems as he seemed too preoccupied with how my leaving was making him feel than with the years of rejection I described which led to me leaving, I say leaving but I only moved to a church up the road (I had been in the first church for over 20 years but couldn't bear it any longer, which was a sad outcome).

After years of rejection, the man finally says, «Look, I love you, and you don't have a CHOICE!»

If this season is to be his last at Arsenal, he's already made it clear that this job may not be his last and although you may think that previous interest from the likes of Real Madrid and AC Milan may be long gone after many years of rejection, it seems as if one club is still relatively keen on securing the Frenchman's services.

HR drowning in paperwork from all the grievances raised against Wenger, scouts jumping off bridges after 4 years of rejection as non of the proposals were considered but wenger to be better than Giroud, salmonella outbreak because Wenger thinks sell by dates are a conspiracy so dinnerladies being forced to cook off meat and Dick law being sent all over the world to negotiate only for Wenger to think «meh that's too expensive by 0.0001 %

Rebel will look at Salinger's youth, his time spent in conflict during World War II, finding love, enduring loss and years of rejection letters from The New Yorker, which fuelled chronic writer's block but also helped him find his voice.

There are years and years of rejection and failure.

It promises years of rejections and, if one does finally land a contract, it will still take another three years or more for the book to actually go into production.

Beats beating one's head against a wall for say three years of rejections or having the MS gathering dust in a drawer.

Years of rejection letters had prompted him to go down the independent route with a trilogy of suspense mysteries.

After many years of rejections and the constant learning curve that just didn't seem to end!

Now my publishing / artist ego (the one who suffered over 10 years of rejections and strife to become a published author) immediately reacted.

«I went through seven or eight years of rejection letters,» says Stark.

But if you recognize that even the most successful authors have been, say, rejected by 56 agents, like Kathryn Stocket was with The Help, or faced six years of rejection, like Julia Glass did before publishing Three Junes, which went on to win the National Book Award, it becomes just part of the process, a story you can someday tell about how hard - fought your success was.

Meg talks about a writer who had 56 rejections, and another who went through 6 years of rejection before publication.

I will shut up in a minute: But if you recognize that even the most successful authors have been, say, rejected by 56 agents, like Kathryn Stocket was with The Help, or faced six years of rejection.

Six years of rejection OMG!!

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen — 140 years of rejection.

I want to stress that I have nothing but respect for writers who have endured and persevered against years of rejection, whether or not they achieved the level of success they desired.

A major reason I self - publish (besides that I don't want to go thru a few years of rejections / waiting for pre-press) is because I have many books with complex layouts, and it's easier for me to create them WSYWYG than to try to keep track of what I'm saying in a single text - stream manuscript format.

But it all came about after twelve years of rejection from traditional publishers.

What if I did all that work, suffered all the slings and arrows of years of rejection, only to finally get a book published and have it met by utter silence?

Bestselling author Theresa Ragan endured 19 years of rejections from traditional publishers before self - publishing her books on CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing.

Now there is somewhere for talented authors to go following years of rejection.

How can the failure in that arena be any greater than the years of rejection I've endured so far?

-LSB-...] The Creative Penn has a great interview with fantasy author Michael Sullivan chock full of great advice from the author who had given up on writing after 10 years of rejection, only to find success when he applied what he'd learned in those 10 years!

And I understand that as artists who have experienced years of rejection, we often carry huge (and growing) chips on our shoulder.

After two years of rejection, and temptation to give up, they found a deal on a 25 unit property that had been listed for two years, and they were on their way.

Not exact matches

In a high - energy speech that drew many laughs, the outspoken 65 - year - old said she's found that the ability to bounce back from hurt, rejection and disappointment is the No. 1 predictor of a person's success in business.

That would mark the culmination of two years of soul - searching on the part of his government, which began with the Potash rejection.

The MBA program at McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management doesn't have a minimum GPA requirement; Don Melville, the school's director of the MBA and master's program, says applicants who struggled in their undergrad years aren't doomed to rejection.

It's going to get lonely during the 10 years it may take to build a business, and you'll certainly face rejection, lack of results and hard times while you're on the ominously flat part of the business curve.

My competitive advantage in business is not my work ethic, ability to take rejection or my 20 years of experience.

Amazingly, despite Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline earlier this year, far more Canadians chose him, too, when asked who would encourage energy imports from Canada.

Notwithstanding the Conservatives» repeated rejections of the PBO claim, last year's budget was an implicit admission that a significant portion of the federal government's deficit was structural.

Because of this skepticism, including the U.S. government's rejection of several Chinese deals, Chinese investment in the United States fell to $ 25 billion last year from $ 50 billion in 2016, according to Derek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute.

That vindicates last year's rejection of an opportunistic bid.

Considering the human spectacle today, forty years after the document whose widespread rejection reportedly broke Paul VI's heart, one can't help but wonder how he might have felt if he had glimpsed only a fraction of the evidence now available — whether any of it might have provoked just the smallest wry smile.

After years of writing and working, he submits the manuscript to agents and the rejection letters begin to trickle in.

Perhaps what we see happening in Christianity today is the result of 2,000 years of antinomianism — the rejection of God's instruction (Torah).

As a man who struggled for years to find and accept god, I'm going to raise a HUGE personal rejection of one important point.

To further the rejection of two thousand years of Christian teaching?

But it came too late — his habit of bitterness too well established by his drinking, his rejection by Hawthorne, and his favorite son's suicide to allow him much happiness in the few years he had left.

The letter showed that my rejection of classical theism was something like an elaborated repetition of what Father went through fifty or sixty years earlier.

It would furtherrequire the rejection of two thousand years of Jewish and Christian history since at no time has homosexual intercourse been proposed to or found acceptance among the People of God.

We were able to embrace him as the loved son he always was and will be... I am sad that he struggled so many years with the dread of rejection of us as his parents and held the «secret» of being gay for way too long.

The practice of infant baptism is the visible acknowledgement that from birth the child is being shaped by his faith environment; and the practice of confirmation of baptism is the recognition that on reaching years of discretion a person must decide for himself between commitment and rejection.

I'm not a scholar on this, of course, but I remember reading that this all started just a few hundred years ago, and more or less aligned with the church's rejection of alchemy under pressure from the growing influence of the Enlightenment (during which they tried to suppress Galileo, formed the horrors of the Inqusition, and more...).

Looking back upon his ministry in later years, he confessed, «About midway in my ministry, which extends roughly from the peace of Versailles to the peace of Munich, measured in terms of Western history, I underwent a fairly complete conversion of thought which involved rejection of almost all the liberal theological ideals with which I ventured forth in 1915.»